Bruce Webster pnws j00!
Bruce Webster is a floor wax AND a cake icing. He’s a lawyer right now, but once upon a time he coded computer games. More precisely, Apple II games. Or game. Sundog. Look, the plot isn’t in the way, but consists of the following. Your privateer uncle died and left you a beatup old ship called the Sundog. He had a commission to help defrost some colonists on the planet Jondd, in a place called Banville. Yes, defrost. They’re frozen, see? So there are various stages–at each stage you have to bring them stuff to help get them going. Stage one they need four things: wood/fibers, seeds/sprouts, grains/cereals, and fruits/vegetables. Anyway, you have to repair your ship, and run all over the local systems buying low and selling high...
Intake
So, I’m shooting for 1200 or less calories each day. And, I’m using one of the best free web applications (Fitday.com) I’ve ever seen for this. It’s not that it’s pretty–just REALLY functional. I’m sure that once upon a time, people could actually do things without memberships to various websites, but not anymore. We’re helpless without them. Anyway. Start drinking zero calorie drinks. Really, and I mean it. And don’t complain that they just don’t taste good–you’re right, they aren’t exact copies. Big deal. Look at the math (based upon 2 cans per day at the office): Drink Calories Each Calories Weekly Percent of Goal Dr....
Sci-fi paperbacks
Old sci-fi paperbacks are great. I even love the smell of the local half-price book store. I think back to the summer vacations from Greenwood, when Ted O’brien, his little brother Mike, and I would go to the book store with a grocery sack of paperbacks with which we were willing to part. We’d check them in for in-store credit, add a ten dollar bill or so to the kitty, and walk out with two “new” sacks full of dog-eared sci-fi novels. On the way out of the place, the owner would always say, “Read fast and come back.” I had a strategy for selecting books. There were always a few books or authors on my rabidly-sought list…but part of the fun was selecting at random. And just how did you do that? Why, the cover art,...
F0t0rshop
I love image tools. Oddly, I don’t really have a favorite. Yeah, I like Photoshop–it’s a great package. But I also like Fireworks and Gimpshop. And who DOESN’T love Irfan? ALOT of my image work is done solely with Irfan. Alt-Print Screen, and Ctrl-V it right into IrfanView. Save it as a JPG or a PNG. Actually, I’m trying to get away from JPG now… I really need to stop and do some testing with filesizes and quality levels between the two formats. I’ll save that for a future blog post. Fireworks is the stepchild of Macromedia Flash and rarely gets any respect compared to the powerhouse Photoshop and the indie street-cred of the Gimp. But Fireworks is fast and easy, doesn’t have weirdo interface rules, and...
Nessus Revisited
I spent a little time documenting my trip down Nessus lane–which is why I haven’t posted as much this week. Sorry. Click the link over on the left and be amazed at teh m4d skilz.
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